Indiana Snowpocalyps 2018? Fri Jan 12 - 13

[Tactically Fat]

Need. More. Snow.

 

[Bigtanker]

We had a little snow yesterday. I took the kids tubing.

Yeah snow!!

 

[ghuns]

I took the kids tubing.

Were you the tube?

 

[CountryBoy19]

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6 inch’s or so with ice under it.
Northern folk have to consider its not flat here we have very steep hills and hollows.
Most folks down here has food and water stockpiled generators ect. it’s far more rural than the rest of the state.

This ^^^^ Having grown up in Ft Wayne area and now living in the southern hills and hollers. It's no joking matter. My dad, accustomed to driving in snow his whole life (the man plowed snow commercially for 3-4 decades), struggled back in early December when we got a small dusting while they were down visiting. The issue wasn't speed, knowledge, or capability, it was the fact that even a stopped vehicle would slide down the hill he was trying to traverse to make it to my driveway. He used the side-ditch, where viable, as a traction aid and made it down the hill going so slow the speedometer wouldn't register a speed. As he tried to turn into the driveway, the trailer he was towing attempted to continue going straight down the hill; if it were from the added traction of the stone driveway, and the super-aggressive tires on the truck, the trailer probably would have pulled him back out onto the road so he could continue down the hill backwards.

 

[Bigtanker]

Were you the tube?

George Wilson.

 

[ghuns]

George Wilson.

Not where, were.

The pic looks like YOU were their intertube.

 

[Bigtanker]

Not where, were.

The pic looks like YOU were their intertube.

Nope. Went down a part of the hill that hadn't been packed down yet. Lots of powder!

 

[steif]

I would have been okay with more snow.... I was ready to be snowed in for a while with my houseguest.

 

[BluePig]

George Wilson.

Right behind the old farmstead.
Wonderful place.
Was in Atlanta on Wednesday.
They shut everything down due to the snowpocalypse.
Gov declared a snow catastrophy and they shut the airport, schools and businesses down.
Got stuck there for the entire day while the snow melted off everything.
Here is a picture from the sky tram at the airport of the horror of the blanketing snow over an untouched parking lot and the buried vehicles stranded there.

 

[ghuns]

Here is a picture from the sky tram at the airport of the horror of the blanketing snow over an untouched parking lot and the buried vehicles stranded there.

WOW! What is that? Like maybe a 1/2 or 3/4" of snow.

I have a friend who grew up smack dab in the middle of the lake effect belt who moved to Georgia a couple years ago. He said the other day his normal half hour commute was over 2 hours. They had a half inch of snow.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Don't put the snowblowers away yet. Weather forecast calling for another heavy snow event on 6-8 Feb.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Don't put the snowblowers away yet. Weather forecast calling for another heavy snow event on 6-8 Feb.

Yeah...I've got FB friends posting up stuff they're finding on some of the weather forecaster's sites that are saying we might get 10, 12, or more inches of snow. (Even though the weather guys are emphasizing these are just model extremes). Sometimes too much information is a bad thing.

 

[ghuns]

...weather forecaster's sites that are saying we might get 10, 12, or more inches of snow...

Suuuuuuuure we will.

 

[bwframe]

40 years ago...

https://www.weather.gov/ind/blizzardof78

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2016/01/25/retroindy-blizzard-1978/79293570/

It?s been 40 years since the Blizzard of ?78 | WISH-TV

[video=youtube;4R9GWOtPFYo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R9GWOtPFYo[/video]

[video=youtube;relN_Wao3ak]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=relN_Wao3ak[/video]

 

[Itchytriggerfinger]

get 10, 12, or more inches.

Yeah, I've made that promise too. She ended up getting less but at least she didn't run out to buy milk, eggs, and bread.

 

[rvb]

40 years ago...

https://www.weather.gov/ind/blizzardof78

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2016/01/25/retroindy-blizzard-1978/79293570/

It?s been 40 years since the Blizzard of ?78 | WISH-TV

I don't remember the blizzard, but my life has been forever associated with the event (I turn 40 today)...

-rvb

 

[Bigtanker]

I don't remember the blizzard, but my life has been forever associated with the event (I turn 40 today)...

-rvb

Happy Birthday!

 

[Tactically Fat]

I don't remember the blizzard, but my life has been forever associated with the event (I turn 40 today)...

-rvb

Happy Birthday!

And you're seriously lucky to be alive. That storm was MAJOR. Wasn't just Central Indiana that had it rough. It was BAD from Iowa to Maine. 100 people perished.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I was 16 in 1978 and one of the things I remember is that we missed 30 days of school, and back then, we didn't have to make them up.

 

[Bigtanker]

I was 16 in 1978 and one of the things I remember is that we missed 30 days of school, and back then, we didn't have to make them up.

And look at you now because of that.......